Last Thursday evening, political science professor Ali Banuazizi and history professor Julian Bourg spoke at the Eagle Political Society’s first topic meeting, “ISIS and the American Response.”
News, On Campus
Freshman Class Welcomed With Annual ‘First Flight’
Dave Eggers challenged the crowd of students to resist all of the test cores and rankings their high school careers are often distilled down to.
News, On Campus
Campus Voice Uses Student-Submitted Ideas for UGBC Policy Reform
Boston College students seeking more control over and interaction with their campus have the option of communicating directly with UGBC’s Campus Voice website—an online idea-submission platform launched last spring.
News
Local Leaders Reflect On ‘Making Boston Stronger’
By: Carolyn Freeman
Boston was able to come together in the aftermath of last year’s marathon because the city had prepared for it and trusted each other, said former mayor Thomas M. Menino at the Clough Colloquium’s Making Boston Stronger panel in Robsham Theater on May 7.
On Campus, News
Sturken Explains Power Of Photography
By: Carolyn Freeman
Photography, which once centered on capturing a single unique moment, has since become a medium to curate life as it is lived, said Marita Sturken at her lecture, entitled “Kodak, Polaroid, and Facebook: The Shaping of Memory, Family Pictures, and Photography of the Self,” in Cushing 001 last Thursday.
On Campus, News
Ally Training To Support GLBTQ Community
By: Carolyn Freeman
The interactive workshop is meant to help the BC community learn base-level skills to help the GLBTQ community feel supported and to establish goals going forward, like the creation of an GLBTQ resource center.
News
Elizabeth Smart Shares Story Of Overcoming Adversity
By: Carolyn Freeman
Everyone faces obstacles, but it’s overcoming them and focusing on the future that is critical-that’s how Elizabeth Smart was able to survive after she was abducted, held in captivity, and raped every day for nine months. Smart spoke to a full Devlin 008 on April 10, with students packed into the stairwells and onto the floor around the podium-BCPD was called in to manage the crowd.
News
Revamped 5K Race Will Benefit Jimmy Fund
By: Carolyn Freeman
This weekend, droves of students listening to ’80s hits will descend upon the Heights-but this time, they won’t be in the Mods. Instead, they will be participating in the Eagles For a Cause 5K Run/Walk. For the first time in its 15-year history, the 5K this Saturday will have a theme: the 1980s.
News
Alumna And Writer Wigfield Talks ’30 Rock’
By: Carolyn Freeman
Like everything, the path to a comedy-writing career is tricky starting out, said Boston College alum Tracey Wigfield, a writer for 30 Rock and The Mindy Project and BC ’05. Wigfield spoke April 7 to a packed Devlin 008. Wigfield won an Emmy in 2013 for her work on 30 Rock.
Academics, News
Semester Online To End In 2014
By: Carolyn Freeman
After the spring 2014 semester, Boston College will no longer offer online classes as a part of Semester Online. The Online Consortium hosted by online provider 2U has dissolved its Semester Online program following a vote of the Arts & Sciences Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.
